Science 5: Earth materials change as they move through the rock cycle and can be used as natural resources
• The rock cycle, local types of earth material

Science 7: Evolution by natural selection provides an explanation for the diversity and survival of living things, Earth and its climate have changed over geological time
• Organisms have evolved over time, the fossil record provides evidence for changes in biodiversity over geological time

Earth Science 11: Earth materials are changed as they cycle through the geosphere and are used as resources, with economic and environmental implications
• Earth materials can be identified and classified based on their properties

Earth Science 12: Geologic time is preserved in Earth’s rock record as fossils and reflects profound changes in the history of life on Earth
• The geologic time scale sequences the major events in Earth’s history, the fossil record, dating methods of rocks and events, Earth’s past can be reconstructed by correlating fossils and rock strata